Empowering People's Independence (EPI)
Legal name: Epilepsy-pralid Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161422825
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Phone
- (585) 442-6420
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,164,409
- Expenses
- $47,843,845
- Assets
- $29,034,954
- Liabilities
- $10,386,545
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF SINSEBOX (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFF SINSEBOX (PRESIDENT): $297,500 total reported compensation
- KIMBERLI JOHNSTON (CFO): $182,438 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH ABBOTT (COO): $182,177 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering People's Independence (EPI) supports individuals with epilepsy, developmental disabilities, brain injury, and other challenges across New York.
What it reported doing in 2024
Self direction - gives a person the chance to choose their own services, enabling them to live the life of their choosing. With a self-directed budget, the person can choose the right supports for them including managing the budget dollars, and choosing their own staff. Approximately 950 individuals served in 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.7%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $44.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $298K · 20 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $136K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.